as in proximity
the state or condition of being near
the immediacy of Christmas is just beginning to dawn on many last-minute shoppers
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Recent Examples of immediacy
These attacks are often short, simple, and urgent—designed to create a sense of immediacy that overwhelms cautious thinking.
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Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
The great media of the 20th century—the art-pop album, the feature-length film, the gallery show, the literary novel—may be fighting for their life, but that’s because of competition from new forms defined by a sense of immediacy: short-form video, chatty podcasts, video games, memes.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
Reigns and Lesnar operate at a faster pace than usual here and the Reigns’s triumph hits with startling immediacy.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
The immediacy of the events had faded, and that complicates the diplomatic challenge Zelensky faces at this stage in the war.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
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Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
The great media of the 20th century—the art-pop album, the feature-length film, the gallery show, the literary novel—may be fighting for their life, but that’s because of competition from new forms defined by a sense of immediacy: short-form video, chatty podcasts, video games, memes.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025
Reigns and Lesnar operate at a faster pace than usual here and the Reigns’s triumph hits with startling immediacy.
—Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 21 Apr. 2025
The immediacy of the events had faded, and that complicates the diplomatic challenge Zelensky faces at this stage in the war.
—Simon Shuster, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for immediacy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immediacy
proximity
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Privacy technology has experienced a renaissance (evident in Monero’s price action and advances in zero-knowledge research) partly as a course correction against crypto's uncomfortable proximity to establishment power.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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When in a forest, stay in proximity to shorter tree groupings.—
STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
26 May 2025
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“Immediacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immediacy. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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